https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211859 Summary: oom_adj -17 does not prevent OOM killing a task Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Alpha 5 Platform: PowerPC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: olh@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de echo -n -17 > /proc/2969/oom_adj this does not prevent the kernel from killing pid 2969 anyway. Out of Memory: Kill process 2401 (YaST2.call) score 1789 and children. Out of memory: Killed process 2969 (Xorg). setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory from 1 to 0 does not help either. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.